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Chapter 9
Reconstruction
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| reconstruction | to rebuild |
| sharecropper | a farmer who worked land owned by someone else |
| Ben Tillman | Governor of South Carolina in 1890, wanted to help poor white farmers and created an agricultural college now called Clemson University |
| poverty | not having enough money to provide the basic things needed to live |
| debt | to owe money to someone else |
| integrate | to bring together |
| Jim Crow Laws | laws segregating African Americans from whites |
| Freedmen's Bureau | a government organization that gave food, shelter and medicine to former slaves and poor white people |
| 14th Amendment | anyone born in America was a citizen and had equal rights |
| 15th Amendment | African Americans right to vote |